Pants hanger



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` 1 PANTS HANGER Filed Dec. 2l, 1954 '2 Sheets-Sheet l H c N E R F A. lv.

PANTS HANGER Filed Deo. 21, 1954 2 sheets-sheet 2 Inventov CZ f7- f Attorney Patented Feb. 11, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PANTS HANGER James Avery French, Chicago, Ill.

Application December 21, 1934, Serial No. '758,673 2 Claims. (Cl. 223-63) The present invention relates to a device for hanging pants and has for its prime object t'o provide means whereby the creases in the trouser legs may be maintained while the pants are hung in a closet or the like.

Another important object of the invention resides in the provision of a device of this nature which is exceedingly simple in its construction, inexpensive to manufacture, strong and durable,

thoroughly eicient and reliable in use, and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

With the above and numerous other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds,

the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.-

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a device embodying the features of my invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is another elevation of the device showing the leg of a pair of pants about to be mounted thereon.

Figure 4 is a similar View showing the leg of the trousers mounted thereon.

Referring to the drawings in detail, it will be seen that the numeral 5 denotes a transverse rod having heads or stops 6 at the ends thereof.

A hook 1 is provided at the center of the rod 5.

An elongated rod or strand of resilient material is bent at its center to provide a spring coil 8 of any desired number of convolutes and from this coil 8 there extends normally diverging arms 9 9 which are bent over upon themselves so as to provide bight portions lil- I0 overhanging the rod 5 and merging into arms l I which in turn 40 merge into obliquely extending arm extensions I2. These arm extensions I2 merge into bights I4-I4 which in turn merge into arms I5-I5 extending upwardly and terminating in eyes I5 disposed about the end portions of the rod 5 and slidable thereon. This resilient rod just described in detail is tensioned or stressed so as to normally be disposed inA the position shown in Figure 1 but it may be compressed to the position shown in Figure 4 when the leg of a pair of pants is placed thereover and thereby giving the necessary tension so as to maintain the crease in the leg of the pants. 5

It is thought that the construction, utility and advantages of this invention will now be quite apparent to those skilled in this art without a more detailed description thereof.

'Ihe present embodiment of the invention has 10F been disclosed in considerable detail merely for the purposes of exemplication since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description. 15

It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of 20 its advantages.

Havingthus described the invention, what 4is claimed as new is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a rod having heads on the ends thereof, a hook 25 extending from the central portion of the rod, and a strand of resilient material curved intermediate its ends so as to provide a coil from which extends arms merging into bights overhanging the rod and merging into arms depend- 30 ing from said bights and merging into obliquely and downwardly diverging extensions which in turn merge into bights, the last mentioned bights merging into upwardly extending arms having eyes slidable over the rod.

2. A device of the class described comprising a rod, means for hanging the rod from a support, and a strand of resilient material curved intermediate its ends so as to provide a coil from which extend arms merging into bights overhanging the rod and said bights merging into arms depending from said bights and said arms merging into obliquely and downwardly diverging extensions which in turn merge into bights, the last mentioned bights merging into upwardly extending arms having eyes slidable over the rod.

JAMES AVERY FRENCH. 

